7.LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY

TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT

IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FINAL

PRODUCT?

Taking a look back at my preliminary task, I can say my skills with Photoshop have greatly improved whilst continuously experimenting with a range of different tools such as the polygonal lasso tool, crop tool and a range of different blending options to truly make my music magazine look more professional. Gradually practicing to use these tools to a great standard allowed me to produce a more realistic music magazine, and one that my target audience may believe is more legit, leading them to buy the product. It is clear that my knowledge of conventions which depends on the genre, means it must be designed in a certain way. With my latest music magazine I feel that it does follow the conventions of a typical Hip Hop magazine, whereas with my preliminary task all the subheadings are mixed up all over the place, and my main image hardly covers most of the front page, but not only that the mast head is too small, and the page overall is filled with different fonts and colours, which is not expected of a Hip Hop music magazine.

BEFORE AFTER

Before After

Clearly you can see a tremendous difference between my preliminary task and my final product in terms of quality and professionalism, and appealing to my target market. A major difference is the images used, from my preliminary task I didn’t even use images that I had to take myself, but instead I took from Google images which is disallowed. Whereas with my final product the images used are all of a high quality, and are representing the genre effectively with each photo showing what the life of a typical young rapper is. Another huge mistake I made in my preliminary task was not, at least spreading out the page numbers to make it look like the magazine has a lot to offer, but instead I listed from number 1,2,3... Etc. Whereas when I done my research I found out that each subheading has to be unique and different from the others so it looks like the magazine offers a diverse range of information. Not to mention there are many different colours used in my preliminary task, and I did not stick with the same font from the front page and took on a completely different font which shares no relevance.

Ultimately, from this coursework I have learnt a variety of skills with a range of different software to a reasonably high level and I am able to present these ideas in many ways, whereas before I had started the coursework I did not even know that these software's even existed. I now know how key planning is, and is essential to producing the best music magazine as it will give you a base from what design to follow similarly, instead of just being thrown out there with no knowledge, and make the music magazine to a poor standard, because there will be questions you will not be able to answer. Overall creating a music magazine with no planning and research is very difficult, and when made will not be to a good standard. Something else that is crucial in a music magazine is maintaining consistency of font, colour and the genre of the magazine, because you cannot switch from one target audience to another with one music magazine and is vital you appeal to the ones you have chosen, by the type of magazine you decide to make